DGS49
Diamond Member
Many healthy adults, even now after ACA, remain without health insurance, assuming that they will be able to "handle" any healthcare costs that arise. Usually it works out OK, as long as...[they don't get sick or have a bad accident].
This foolish attitude guides our current military strategy, with the same prognosis, to wit, it will be fine, as long as...[we are not forced into a Real War].
The linked essay ponders the original decision to go with an all-volunteer force, how it is working out now, and it hints at how it would NOT work if, say China or Russia got serious with us.
I have always been against the all-volunteer Military for a number of reasons:
Having a Leftist Administration that tries to use the Military as a proving ground for their idiotic social initiatives doesn't help one bit.
It is fairly well known that all of the military services are missing their recruitment targets bigly, despite HUGE bonuses being offered to enlist for the combat arms.
Transitioning from all-volunteer to a mixed military including draftees will be a painful process in a number of respects, but this was a bad decision to start with and it is only getting worse as time goes by. The FIRST step is to recall those soldiers who were cashiered due to refusal to get the jab - give them some backpay if necessary, but we need them. Then some smart people need to figure out what to do next. Bring back the draft.
This foolish attitude guides our current military strategy, with the same prognosis, to wit, it will be fine, as long as...[we are not forced into a Real War].
The linked essay ponders the original decision to go with an all-volunteer force, how it is working out now, and it hints at how it would NOT work if, say China or Russia got serious with us.
I have always been against the all-volunteer Military for a number of reasons:
- We are raising GENERATIONS of young men who have no reason to give a shit about serious national threats,
- The military is more and more being drawn from one or two small segments of society,
- Military leadership (both Officer and Enlisted) MUST be challenged from within (e.g., by draftees, challenging how things are done),
- The cost of bribing people to join the Military has become overwhelming
Having a Leftist Administration that tries to use the Military as a proving ground for their idiotic social initiatives doesn't help one bit.
It is fairly well known that all of the military services are missing their recruitment targets bigly, despite HUGE bonuses being offered to enlist for the combat arms.
Transitioning from all-volunteer to a mixed military including draftees will be a painful process in a number of respects, but this was a bad decision to start with and it is only getting worse as time goes by. The FIRST step is to recall those soldiers who were cashiered due to refusal to get the jab - give them some backpay if necessary, but we need them. Then some smart people need to figure out what to do next. Bring back the draft.